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The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain

CHAPTER XIII
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Some are kind, affectionate, benevolent, and grateful; and some, on the other hand, are thieving robbers and murderers.

No, sir, I admit that I was wrong, and, so to speak, I owe Freney an apology for having given him a bad name; but then again I have made it up to him in other respects.
Now, you'll scarcely believe what I am going to tell you, although you may, for not a word of lie in it.

When Freney sometimes is turned out into my fields, he never breaks bounds, nor covets, so to speak, his neighbor's property, but confines himself strictly and honestly to his own; and I can tell you it's not every horse would do that, or man either.

He knows my voice, too, and, what is more, my very foot, for he will whinny when he hears it, and before he sees me at all." "Pray," said the stranger, exceedingly amused at this narrative, "how does your huge servant get on ?" "Is it Mat Ruly ?--why, sir, the poor boy's as kind-hearted and benevolent, and has as sharp an appetite as ever.

He told me that he cried yesterday when bringing a little assistance to a poor family in the neighborhood.


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